your membership

Get ready to claim your REALTOR®
domain name on the Internet. The new
.REALTOR top-level domain will be available to members of the National Association of REALTORS® on Oct. 23.

As more than 1,900 new top-level
domains are created on the Internet, including .jobs, .tv, and .camera, the launch
of the .REALTOR domain will enable real
estate professionals to brand themselves
clearly as REALTORS®: JohnSmith.com
can become JohnSmith.REALTOR.

“This is truly an exciting time for NARmembers to be on the cutting edge ofInternet technology,” says NAR PresidentSteve Brown. ”NAR is one of the firstassociations to be approved to o;er a top-level domain for its membership. Whenconsumers visit a .REALTOR website, theywill know that they have reached a sourceof comprehensive and accurate real estateinformation as well as someone with un-paralleled insight into the local market.”Aside from members of NAR and theCanadian Real Estate Association, the.REALTOR domain will also be available tostate and local REALTOR® associationsand their MLSs; a;liated institutes, soci-eties, and councils; and NAR’s strategicbusiness partners.

NAR is o;ering a free one-year license
to the first 500,000 members who
register for a . REALTOR domain. For more
information, visit about.REALTOR.

Be the First to Get Your Card

This November, through NAR’s partnership with REALTORS®
Federal Credit Union, a division of Northwest Federal Credit Union,
REALTORS® will have a new choice for credit. Available to credit
union members, this card program will include a customized real
estate–themed design and REALTOR® branding options, along with
important features such as no annual fees, a comprehensive rewards
program, and the competitive interest rates that you have come to
expect from your credit union. The program provides both personal
and business card options and has no balance transfer fee and no
cash advance fee. You can choose from a variety of design images
that represent you as a REALTOR®, a real estate practitioner, and
an advocate for home ownership, and select from several imprinted
tag lines to be placed below your name, including “REALTOR®.” Visit
realtor.org/realtorcreditcard for program updates and availability.

REALTORS® on Ice
If you haven’t taken the ALS
Ice Bucket challenge yourself,
you have likely seen
videos of celebrities,
politicians, and
regular folks dumping
ice water over their heads
to raise awareness—and
funds—for ALS medical
research. The viral movement has been
a colossal success. Between July 29 and
August 25, the ALS Association received
$80 million in donations, compared
with $2.5 million in the same period a
year earlier. But did you know about the
REALTOR® connection? The challenge
was inspired by Pete Frates of Beverly,
Mass., who was diagnosed with the
disease in 2012. His mother, Nancy, is a
team leader with Keller Williams. For her
work with ALS, she was nominated for
REALTOR® Magazine’s Good Neighbor
Awards in 2013. In his own amusing
video, NAR President Steve Brown called
on REALTORS® to donate to ALS and to
submit their ice-bucket video links. Visit
realtor.org/ice-bucket-challenge for
more information and to watch others
take the plunge.